当代资本主义数字货币本质及其权力批判

The Essence of Digital Currency in Contemporary Capitalism and Its Power Critique

马克思的价值形式分析和以此为基础的货币理论,在马克思政治经济学批判中占据关键地位,也是分析数字货币的有力理论工具。马克思将价值的本质理解为资本主义社会历史条件下必然产生的社会关系,并最终表现为货币。据此,以价值形式化运动为逻辑线索,货币实现抽象权力对人的统治,其表现形式呈现符号化趋势。数字货币作为货币职能裂变和分化的最新产物,其本质是价值形式在数字资本主义时代的极限表达,以“无形之形”实现货币权力的全面统摄作用。数字货币并未脱离马克思主义理论的框架,而是反映了全新的资本主义社会关系,掩盖了数字时代资本与劳动的矛盾关系,搭建了数字空间与现实世界统治秩序连接的桥梁,最终指向的是一个充斥着象征意义的单一、空洞、虚无的符号世界。立足于马克思主义政治经济学批判,对数字货币进行考察,有助于在理论层面深化马克思主义的当代诠释力,避免在建设数字中国的实践中陷入资本逻辑。

power over people,and its manifestation shows a trend in symbolization.As the latest product of fission and division of the monetary function,digital currency essentially is the ultimate expression of the value form in the era of digital capitalism,realizing the comprehensive domination of monetary power with the"intangible form".Digital currency has not departed from the Marxist theoretical framework.However,it reflects a new capitalist social relationship,concealing the contradictory relationship between capital and labor in the digital era.It builds a bridge which connects the ruling order between the digital space and the real world,and ultimately leads to a single,empty,and vain symbolic world where full of symbolism.Based on the Marxist criticism of political economics,the investigation of digital currencies can help theoretically deepen the contemporary interpretive power of Marxism and avoid falling into capital logic in the practice of building digital China.